[EM] [Election-Methods] [english 94%] PR favoring racialminorities

[James Gilmour]

> Raph Frank > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 7:55 PM
> > On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 7:34 PM, James Gilmour 
> > I don't think registered "voter chosen lists" will ever get off the ground.
> 
> The compromise was that each candidate would pick his own list.

No political party is ever going to tolerate that from any of the candidates it has nominated, so that's another non-starter.

I have to say I just do not understand the obsession with "lists".  I can understand why countries that have used party list PR for
many decades are (mostly) content not to change, but those countries have at least a century of a very different political culture
from that of the UK and those countries around the world which have suffered the appalling British legacy of single-member electoral
districts and first-past-the-post plurality voting.

James

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